Rank Hovis Flour Mills

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TR 36 NE 1/254

RAMSGATE MARGATE ROAD (west side) Rank Hovis Flour Mills

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Flour mills. 1865 by Edward Welby Pugin. Stock brick with red brick details. Five stores 3rd and 4th storeys added late in C19 or C20 with plinth-like ground floor, segmentally headed arcaded middle stage encompassing 1st and 2nd floors, brick bands to 3rd floors, and segmentally arcaded 4th floor. Gabled full height cross wing at rear with stepped side wings. Seven bays, all with metal casements. Three storey forebuilding, a later addition, but with exactly similar detailing, and over it, on the mainblock, a single large pointed window in multi moulded rebate, with crow-stepped raised surround. Open arcade and glazed ground floor to forebuilding. Interior: The first, second and third floors are supported on the original cast iron Tuscan style columns but the original steam-driven machinery has been taken out and replaced by C20 electically-driven machinery. Granary/silo/storage, etc. to left not included. Designed by Pugin for the Isle of Thanet Steam Flour Mills, (See Busson, Ramsgate, 129-30).

TR 36 NE 1/254

RAMSGATE MARGATE ROAD (west side) Rank Hovis Flour Mills

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Flour mills. Circa 1860s by Edward Welby Pugin. Stock brick with red brick details. Five storeys with plinth-like ground floor, segmentally headed arcaded middle stage encompassing 1st and 2nd floors, brick bands to 3rd floor, and segmentally arcaded 4th floor. Gabled full height cross wing at rear with stepped side wings. Seven bays, all with metal casements. Three storey forebuilding, a later addition, but with exactly similar detailing, and over it, on the main block, a single large pointed window in multi moulded rebate with crow-stepped raised surround. Open arcaded and glazed ground floor to forebuilding leading to early large corrugated iron-clad granary/silo/storage, etc. to left of indeterminate date. Designed by Pugin for the Isle of Thanet Steam Flour Mills, (See Busson, Ramsgate, 129-30).

Listing NGR: TR3780965634